This week I took a look at the different techniques different sources use to convey information relevant to picking a college major. I perused both internet blogs and official research, and got two incredibly different experiences from each. When reading a blog, the overall tone of the passage comes off as more personal and nonchalant, while a paper reporting findings of university professors tends to feel a bit more rigid and structured. Where a blog will attempt to reassure that being undecided is not the end of the world and may actually have innate benefits, a research paper will slap you in the face with statistics and attempt to draw conclusions in a more empirical matter. However, despite the factual claims and arguments presented very intelligently in the article, I believe that the warmer style of the blog enhanced the displayed information and made it easier to understand. Its human nature to choose something with at least a degree of human emotion over plainspoken, though logically sound, text. Until next week.-Luke
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